Rundlett-Middle-School-Library

Resources for Students

The Top 10 African-American Inventors
Harlem : 1900 - 1940 - Biographies of the people who participated in the Harlem Renaissance.
Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music - Biographies of African Americans in classical music.
Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color - Biographical information on African-American women authors.
African Americans in the Visual Arts
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - Biography with illustrations by the University of Pennsylvania library.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

Web Museum - Biographies of European and American artists. Most biographies also have examples of works by the artist.
Artnet - Biographies of artists from all time periods.
Yahoo! List for Artists

Great Writers and Poets - Links to Web sites.
Author Webliography - Links to pages for individual authors
American Authors on the Web - Links to biographical information.
Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color - Biographical information on African-American, Hispanic, Native American and Asian-American women authors.
Modern American Poetry - This site has biographical information on poets of the 1800's and 1900's.

Biography-Center - Another good starting point for biographical information with over 10,000 biographies.
Biography.com - Short biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
Biographical Dictionary - Search by name, date, or by subject (keyword). Very brief biographies.
Who2 - Brief biographies of famous people. Here is where you will find movie, television, and music stars. Each biography has a link to 4 other web sites for the person.

POTUS : Presidents of the United States - Lots of information here including members of the cabinet, presidential highlights and links to other biographical sites.
The Presidents of the United States - Biographies, and inagural addresses. This is a good site to visit if you need information on the presidents' wives. From the White House.
The Hall of Presidents - A picture of each president, and a short biography. If you click on the small picture of the president, you can see a much larger version of the picture.
Colonial Hall - Biographies of the founding fathers such as the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - From 1774 to the present. This site has biographies of senators, representatives, presidents and vice-presidents.
Explorers - Biographies of a large number of explorers.

Las Mujeras - Famous Hispanic Women
Chicana and Latina Profiles - includes Gloria Estefan, Selena, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum.
Famous Hispanics
Discover Hispanic History Makers - Short biographies of famous Hispanics from before 1900 to the present.
Govenor Luis Munoz Marin - Puerto Rico's first govenor.

Biographies of Women Mathematicians - Biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biographies of over 1100 mathematicians which you can search by name or by date.
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora - Exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences.
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball

The Essentials of Music - Look in the composers section for biographies. If you have Real Player, you can listen to their music, too.
The Classical Composer Picture Gallery - Pictures of composers. Not a lot of biographical information.
Classical Net Composer Data - Lists of compositions and some biographical information.

Great Canadian Scientists
Inventors and Inventions - Arranged by name of inventor or invention, and also arranged by date and by type of invention.

The National Women's Hall of Fame - Biographies of outstanding American women.
Women Nobel Prize Laureates - Links to web sites and biographies.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Search here for biographical information in many different subject areas.
Feminist Foremothers - Short biographies of women who wrote about women's rights in the time between 1400 and 1800.
Biographies of Notable Women in History - Biographies for notable women, African American women, and women in science.

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